Beef Lettuce Wraps
Beef Lettuce Wraps
Prep Time: 20 Minutes
Prep Time: 10 Minutes
Total time: 30 Minutes
Servings: 4
Ingredients
Sauce
- 2 tablespoons vegetable or canola oil
- 1/2 cup of rice wine vinegar
- 1 tablespoon of sugar
- 1/4 cup low sodium soy sauce
Beef & Lettuce
- 1-1/2 pounds lean ground beef
- 2 cloves of garlic, minced
- 1 1/2 teaspoons fresh ginger, grated
- Salt and pepper, to taste
- 3-4 green onions, sliced
- 1 can of water chestnuts, diced
- 12 Bibb, Boston or Butterhead lettuce leaves
Add ons:
- Red bell pepper, sliced into thin strips
- Cilantro, chopped
- Thai basil, finely chopped
Instructions
1.
Brown 1-1/2 pounds of ground beef. Drain fat. Add garlic, fresh ginger, salt and pepper. Cook for 3 minutes to combined flavors.
2.
Combine all sauce ingredients. Add this to the beef mixture in the pan. Also, add the green onions and the water chestnuts. Cook for about 10 minutes. You want to cook it long enough that the beef has absorbed most of the sauce. You don’t want too much sauce or the lettuce gets too soft.
3.
Layout lettuce leaves. Scoop 1-1/2 teaspoons of the beef per lettuce leaf. Add red pepper, cilantro and Thai basil, to taste.
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